Category: theistic evolution
Evolution, Theistic Evolution, and Intelligent Design
| March 27, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
— Below is a beefed-up version of a piece I posted here at UD earlier this year. The version below appeared at the Chuck Colson blog. — Evolution, Theistic Evolution, and Intelligent Design By William Dembski In 1993, well-known apologist William Lane Craig debated professional atheist Frank Zindler concerning the existence of the Christian God.… more
ID, Atheism, and Theistic Evolution
| February 24, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
A famous theism-vs.-atheism debate between William Lane Craig and Frank Zindler took place in 1993 at Willow Creek Church and was published as a video by Zondervan in 1996 (under the title Atheism vs. Christianity). The debate is available on YouTube here (in 15 parts). It is available in full here. In that debate, Zindler,… more
Do We Need God To Do Science?
| February 10, 2010 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Culture, Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Podcasts, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Premier Radio, one of the UK’s leading Christian radio stations, has been featuring several interviews/debates in recent weeks on matters related to ID, some of which have been flagged here and here. The most recent one bears the title of this post and was aired last weekend (6th Feb), in which I debated the question… more
A blow-by-blow response to Dr. Denis Alexander
| January 12, 2010 | Posted by David Anderson under Books of interest, Christian Darwinism, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
In the last year and a bit I’ve done a lot of work in trying to understand and then critique the approach of Dr. Denis Alexander of the Faraday Institute in Cambridge (UK). I know that many readers of UD are familiar with Alexander’s big-selling work, “Creation or Evolution – Do We Have To Choose?”.… more
Throwing down the gauntlet to Dr. Denis Alexander
| January 4, 2010 | Posted by David Anderson under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, theistic evolution |
I had a chapter in the recently published (IVP UK) “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?”, a negative response to those – in particular Dr. Denis Alexander – who say that we must. Well, Dr. Alexander has now read that response. The question going forward is whether he wants to interact with it. My own personal opinion… more
Manhattan Declaration — Where are the theistic evolutionists?
| November 25, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
About 150 Christian leaders were the original signatories of the recent manifesto asserting the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and liberty of conscience — the Manhattan Declaration. At the time of this writing, over a 100,000 have signed it (including me). I encourage readers of UD to read the document and sign it if it… more
Published Today: Should Christians Embrace Evolution?
| November 20, 2009 | Posted by David Anderson under Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Today, Intervarsity Press (IVP) in the UK publish a new symposium, entitled “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?” edited by leading geneticist Professor Norman Nevin. Andrew Sibley has already posted about it on UD and linked to the preface. Believers in a God-guided Darwinism are preaching that Darwinism is a fact and that the Bible can be… more
Ken Miller in Birmingham
| November 7, 2009 | Posted by Flannery under Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Noted Brown University biologist and slayer of windmills, Kenneth Miller, came to Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday November 5. The room was packed with what seemed to be about 200 (mostly students and some faculty). Overall, Miller displayed the affable but subliminally arrogant attitude I’ve come to expect in some academics. Miller began by giving a… more
The End of Christianity now available at Amazon.com
| October 13, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Although its official release date is not until November 1, THE END OF CHRISTIANITY is now in stock and being sold at Amazon.com (go here). Even though argument in this book is compatible with both intelligent design and theistic evolution, it helps bring clarity to the controversy over design and evolution. In particular, it resolves… more
Darwin in Polite Liberal Society — British Edition
| September 11, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Every Friday, the BBC-TV’s flagship public affairs programme, Newsnight, broadcasts ‘Newsnight Review’, which covers the week’s worth of cultural events. This week’s was devoted to Things Darwin-ish. The panel consisted of Richard Dawkins, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (whose latest book, The Year of the Flood, is about an Ultra-Green cult that, amongst other things,… more
Evolutionary Informatics as Intelligent Design and not as Theistic Evolution
| August 23, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
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The paper on evolutionary informatics by Robert Marks and me that was recently published in an IEEE journal (go here for the paper) continues to generate discussion on the Internet. One criticism is that it at best is consistent with theistic evolution but does not support ID. I think this is a mistake. I’ve said… more
Wallace and Intelligent Design: A Response to John M. Lynch
| August 15, 2009 | Posted by Flannery under Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
“Puttering with barnacles” Over a month ago John M. Lynch posted (on his aptly titled blog “a simple prop”–need I say more) a rant against my book, Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution, making a number of charges that warrant reply. Since his promised part 2 has never materialized, I’ll remain silent no longer lest… more
UPDATE: The End of Christianity
| August 13, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
Yesterday I met with the literary publicist hired by Broadman & Holman to promote The End of Christianity when it is released November 1st (for the Amazon.com listing, go here). This book will do much to create further conceptual room for ID. It is also being positioned to go face-to-face with the neo-atheist literature. The… more
Darwinism and popular culture: Attacking Collins hurts science, Chris Mooney argues
| July 20, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under theistic evolution |
A friend draws my attention to “Defenders of the Faith: Scientists who blast religion are hurting their own cause.” by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (Newsweek, July 14, 2009), in which they warn against new atheist attacks on Francis Collins: The critics, though, have it exactly backward: the United States needs more scientists like Collins—researchers… more
Christian Darwinists attempt to douse doubt in Turkey
| May 11, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution |
From the Faraday Institute, we learn of an effort to combat intelligent design in Turkey: A significant event during the past month has been the Darwin Anniversary Conference organized by The Faraday Institute and held in Istanbul. As one of our Turkish speakers remarked: “It was the first time for evolutionary discussions in Turkey that… more
‘Did Darwin Kill God?’ BBC TV Programme
| April 5, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, theistic evolution |
On 31 March, I gave one of the keynote addresses at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association’s Religion Study Group in Durham. This meant that I could not watch the first airing of ‘Did Darwin Kill God?’ on BBC2. I recommend that you watch this show over the next couple of days, while… more
Theos Survey: A Case of Unintelligent Design?
| February 8, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Biology, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution |
Andrew Sibley has drawn attention to the recent Theos survey of the UK public’s beliefs in evolution, creationism and intelligent design. Wearing my sociologist’s hat, one overriding conclusion comes through in this survey: It was very poorly designed. Theos should get its money back from the social researchers they hired. Theos wants to give the… more
Miller Redefining Design
| January 22, 2009 | Posted by Patrick under Darwinism, Eyes Rolling, theistic evolution |
Originally written by uoflcard. I’d rather not distract from the main point of the other thread: HGT. So I created a separate thread for this topic, duplicating this info. There is ‘Design’ in Nature, Biologist Argues It is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. A biologist says that the ID movement garners… more
ID and the Science of God: Part V
| January 22, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution |
In this instalment, I begin to address both Andrew Sibley’s and Timaeus’ (see post 33) questions concerning my interest in reviving a full-blooded (i.e. early modern) sense of theodicy, especially as part of the ID agenda. I will need another post to complete this task because more assumptions about theodicy in its original robust form… more
ID and the Science of God: Part IV
| January 17, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution |
This post originally began as a response to Andrew Sibley but the issues here may resonate with others wanting to reconcile science and religion, coming at it mainly from the religious side. My concern here, as an interested bystander, is that apologetics tends to be much too apologetic. Christianity, in particular, has a much stronger… more